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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Miyazaki in Japan

Posted by admin on August 8, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.7336S, 131.6714WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Miyazaki in Japan on Thursday. The temblor was detected at 08:35:48 / 8:35 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/08/24 / 2024-08-08 08:35:48 / August 8, 2024 @ 8:35 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nitt. Unique identifier: us6000nitt. Exact location of earthquake, 131.6714° East, 31.7336° North, depth 38.351 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 38.351 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 31 km (19 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Nobeoka (c. 121 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Kanoya (c. 82 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Kokubu-matsuki (c. 57 900 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Kobayashi (c. 39 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tarumizu, Kajiki, Nobeoka (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 31 km SE of Miyazaki, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.6714° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.7336° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.351 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31 km SE of Miyazaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-08 08:35:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-08 08:56:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 354 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 52 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.745 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000nitt Id of event.
Event Code 6000nitt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nitt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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